{"id":139185,"date":"2026-09-25T00:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=139185"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:23:08","slug":"close-naval-but-not-quite-right-people-who-want-to-appear-caring-are-attracted-to-the-left-to-micromanage-everything-for-others-people-who-are-caring-are-attracted-to-the-right-because-tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=139185","title":{"rendered":"Close, @naval &#8211; but not quite right \n\nPeople who want to *appear* caring are attracted to the left to micromanage everything for others \n\nPeople who *are* caring are attracted to the right because that&#8217;s where true care happens \n\nPeople who cannot understand logic, or refuse to use it, are welcomed by the left because appearances for power&#8217;s sake are all that matter to them \n\nPeople who use logic are welcomed by the right because the right understands there are rules to the universe, and following them is the only way to ethically succeed at anything"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Close, @naval &#8211; but not quite right <\/p>\n<p>People who want to *appear* caring are attracted to the left to micromanage everything for others <\/p>\n<p>People who *are* caring are attracted to the right because that&#8217;s where true care happens <\/p>\n<p>People who cannot understand logic, or refuse to use it, are welcomed by the left because appearances for power&#8217;s sake are all that matter to them <\/p>\n<p>People who use logic are welcomed by the right because the right understands there are rules to the universe, and following them is the only way to ethically succeed at anything<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; M\u0250\u0279\u0279\u01ddu W\u028e\u01dd\u0279s (@warrenmyers)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/warrenmyers\/status\/2103278679044288658\">Sep 25, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom Twitter https:\/\/twitter.com\/warrenmyers<\/p>\n<p>September 24, 2026 at 08:21PM<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close, @naval &#8211; but not quite right People who want to *appear* caring are attracted to the left to micromanage everything for others People who *are* caring are attracted to the right because that&#8217;s where true care happens People who cannot understand logic, or refuse to use it, are welcomed by the left because appearances &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=139185\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Close, @naval &#8211; but not quite right <\/p>\n<p>People who want to *appear* caring are attracted to the left to micromanage everything for others <\/p>\n<p>People who *are* caring are attracted to the right because that&#8217;s where true care happens <\/p>\n<p>People who cannot understand logic, or refuse to use it, are welcomed by the left because appearances for power&#8217;s sake are all that matter to them <\/p>\n<p>People who use logic are welcomed by the right because the right understands there are rules to the universe, and following them is the only way to ethically succeed at anything<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-139185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139186,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139185\/revisions\/139186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139185"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=139185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}